By Tom Perry and Yousri Mohamed CAIRO/ISMAILIA (Reuters) - Seven Egyptian security men kidnapped by Islamist militants in Sinai last week were freed on Wednesday and President Mohamed Mursi vowed to pursue a crackdown on lawlessness in the desert pen... [Full Article]
SANAA, Yemen (AP) - A suspected U.S. drone strike killed four al-Qaida militants Saturday in a southern Yemeni province once overrun by the group, according to security officials. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
SANAA, Yemen (AP) - A Yemeni court has sentenced 11 alleged al-Qaida militants to up to 10 years in prison for forming armed gangs to destabilize the country and planning attacks on foreign embassies as well as army and security forces. (Source: Asso... [Full Article]
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel's prime minister is accusing Gaza militants of carrying out a rocket attack from Egypt's Sinai desert on a southern Israeli resort last week. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
The U.S. official who oversees American efforts to counter al-Qaida and other militants in the online battlefield keeps a quote on his desk from a "Most Wanted" jihadi from America's South. The ... (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
BEIRUT (AP) - The leader of an Islamic extremist rebel group in Syria pledged allegiance on Wednesday to al-Qaida and its leader for the first time. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
BEIRUT (AP) - Al-Qaida's branch in Iraq said it has merged with Syria's extremist Jabhat al-Nusra, a move that shows the rising confidence of radicals within Syria's rebel movement and is likely to trigger renewed fears among its inter... [Full Article]
JERUSALEM (AP) - Gaza militants fired rockets at Israel early Thursday, defying the Israeli military's warning that it will not tolerate renewed attacks on the country's south. In the West Bank, authorities discovered the body of a second P... [Full Article]
JERUSALEM (AP) - Palestinian militants launched several rockets into southern Israel, while Israeli aircraft struck targets in the Gaza Strip early Wednesday, in the heaviest exchange of fire between the sides since they agreed to an internationally ... [Full Article]
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - Several dozen militants armed with assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades attacked a power grid station in northwestern Pakistan before dawn Tuesday, killing seven people and taking four hostage, police said. (Source: ... [Full Article]